The Next Series

The Next Series

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Jul 7 11 11:45 PM

No idea what it is, but it's coming...

The Random House Spring 2012 Catalog, now on the Random House website, reveals that as part of its marketing and publicity, Apocalypse will have an "Extensive excerpt of book one of (the) next Star Wars Series".

Thoughts?

The Death Star: So Named Because Living On It Means Almost Certain Death.

Well, it is 2012... I'm going to say a reboot of the Star Wars franchise in which they realize Anakin wasn't a bad guy after all, he was just pretending to be a Sith Lord, and Luke was even more whiny and Leia wore a tank top to the Senate.

I had a similar thought - not even that it's a "series" so much as the "next" book in the plot post-RotJ (post-FotJ). Since they've previously mentioned moving away from NJO/LotF/FotJ type series, maybe we'll get a preview of some other author's first book in a new trilogy/duology (which is what Del Rey said they were going back to). My guesses probably remain the same - Denning, Golden, Kemp (if his new duology winds up not being TOR-related).

I'd love to see a return of Stackpole, more X-Wing/Empire type novels - the next "series" beginning with Allston's Wraith and moving on from there.

cdgodin wrote:The first thing that goes into my mind is that it's a preview of the Wraith Squadron novel and the Wraith Squadron novel is going to be the first in a series.

Perhaps they could make a larger series out of loosely tied individual novels, duologies and trilogies,with the Wraith Squadron novel leading the way, but assuming that this is indeed post-FotJ, I expectmyself another, shorter, Denning led - or fully Denning written like DN - series whose seeds are sowedin later FotJ.

There are already things that seem likely to carry beyond FotJ, like the Ben&Vestara -romance - all butconfirmed to run for decades based on Ben's earlier vision - but Fett's appearance in FotJ might herald aJedi vs Mando -plot to post-FotJ, and the Lecersen&Treen -plot might, after Conviction, go into hibernationfor another series to use it. The blurbs for the two last novels are, after all, silent about it.

I had thought of that too - it says "next series" but does that automatically mean "next post-RotJ/post-FotJ" series?

It certainly could be an excerpt from the next TOR series - especially if Paul Kemp's duology is set in that timeframe. Then it's something we already have an idea about, something they could easily be preparing in time for an excerpt to be released with this book.

The excerpt being in Apocalypse could hint towards "to be continued... in the excerpt starting on next page!" -style ending for FotJ.
A TOR series excerpt could be in any SW novel, and considering it's likely launch date during the end of this year, I would try to put
an excerpt in a novel that will be published around the turn of the year.

I would wait the decision on a TOR novel series until it is seen how well the game does and would instead push out a stand-alone
TOR novel after the Revan novel.

I think that's speculation still... The only thing I recall Kemp saying is that he doesn't want to use big established movie characters inlarge roles in his novels. Restricts his freedom unlike original or little used characters or something like that.

The first thing I thought of was TOR. As in, an ongoing TOR series featuring the same characters and plotlines, not random different characters as for example Deceived and Fatal Alliance. I feel like if it were post-FOTJ Max would've heard something before Rostoni retired.

In my heart of hearts, this would be set a few years after FOTJ and have added Yuuzhan Vong. I mean, that's the Legacy tie-in people most want to see, right?

Rouge77 wrote:The excerpt being in Apocalypse could hint towards "to be continued... in the excerpt starting on next page!" -style ending for FotJ.
A TOR series excerpt could be in any SW novel, and considering it's likely launch date during the end of this year, I would try to put
an excerpt in a novel that will be published around the turn of the year.

I would wait the decision on a TOR novel series until it is seen how well the game does and would instead push out a stand-alone
TOR novel after the Revan novel.

Revan is the launch book, and the series is already going to sell a bazillion copies.

You'd put a TOR-series excerpt in the series that is consistently on the New York Times Bestseller list, and high up on it too. Going from TOR one-shots to a series would make an Apocalypse excerpt almost perfect timing.

I considered TOR, but it would be misleading in the sort of way that usually announcements in post-RotJ novels are for post-RotJ content. There are exceptions, but it comes across that if they're going out of their way to mention it in Apocalypse that it will have some connection.

Iurus wrote:I considered TOR, but it would be misleading in the sort of way that usually announcements in post-RotJ novels are for post-RotJ content. There are exceptions, but it comes across that if they're going out of their way to mention it in Apocalypse that it will have some connection.

Why? "Deceived" has a giant "Who's Who" in the end of it for Fate of the Jedi. The two eras couldn't be further apart.

Yeah sounds to me like it could be the Wraith Squadron book. I'd be very surprised if it was something else. There IS still some time until Apocalypse is released, however, so it's possible that it's another book entirely.

samuraix87 wrote:the wraith book is supose to tie up loose ends left in fotj i was wondering what plots would need the wraiths we still have the many people in carbonite left open the slave revolts and thats it.

Maybe Jag needs to rely on the Wraith's to fully uncover the conspiracy against him? And this leads to the founding of the Imperial Knights?